Für viele Unternehmen, insbesondere im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, kommt es mehr denn je darauf an, Wettbewerbsvorteile auf Basis von Technologien zu entwickeln. Der Schlüssel zum Erfolg liegt dabei keineswegs immer in der Anwendung der Technologie in den eigenen Endprodukten. Meist prägt sich...

Amazon disrupts everything it touches and upends any market it enters. In the era of its game-changing dominance, how can any company compete? We are just witnessing the start of the radical changes in retail that will revolutionize shopping in every way. As Amazon and other disruptors continue...

Research suggests that firms avoid excessive differentiation or conformity by using industry competitors as reference targets in a process that Snow and Hambrick (1980) call "strategic adjustment." To date explanations of strategic adjustment have focused on the influence of only one of two...

Commercial open source software (COSS) products --- privately developed software based on publicly available source code --- represent a rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition in the COSS market is that many open source licenses require firms to make certain...